rkyeun comments on Bayesian Judo - Less Wrong

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Comment author: rkyeun 28 August 2012 12:01:47AM 2 points [-]

His beliefs have great personal value to him, and it costs us nothing to let him keep them (as long as he doesn’t initiate theological debates).

Correction: It costs us nothing to let him keep them provided he never at any point acts in a way where the outcome would be different depending on whether or not it is true in reality. A great many people have great personal value in the belief that faith healing works. And it costs us the suffering and deaths of children.